how's it going everyone so slugs and snails are one of the biggest pests that
you're gonna have in the veggie garden I know this from personal experience and
I'm sure that you guys have as well at some point and there are a lot of ways
to control them out on the market through different like nurseries and
here Australia like Bunnings and stuff like that but a lot of them rely on
snail baits and other really nasty chemicals that you don't want to be
having really using in your garden so instead I've come up with a number of
different ways organic ways in which you can control your slugs and snails so
some of these rely on raw materials which I'm sure that most of you will
have by themselves and then also some some organic sort of sprays or saw lures
or like baits and then the third one is sort of some metals that you can
actually use to help prevent damage from snails and slugs
so I'll pretty much just be quickly discussing how each one works and how
you can just pretty much apply it or make it up so I hope you guys can like
this and I will catch you at the end okay so the first one are crushed
eggshells now this is a pretty popular one so this stops slugs and snails
because they're very sharp and pointy and really rough and the snails don't
like to crawl over that so you do grab your crush eggshells and just form a
ring around whichever plant you chew you want to protect so in this case this
young bean is going to be targeted by slugs and snails in fact it already has
so just by applying some egg shows around the ring just like that
and to be safe from getting eaten by any slugs and snails okay so the next option
is to use used coffee grounds so the way this stops its local snails is they are
extremely sensitive to caffeine so even with your used coffee grounds if you
sprinkle them around whichever whatever you want to protect
if the slugs and snails go over them they're gonna receive here
caffeine and just die so you can also make a spray out of this just any use
coffee grounds or instant coffee and you just mix that up with some water drain
away the coffee grounds and then just spray onto your plants pretty much daily
or directly onto the slugs and snails spray it on and that should kill them
for you so I'm just gonna apply it directly over some of these lettuces
here so just again like the egg shows a bit of a ring around your plants
otherwise I know that some people also say with strawberries they just sprinkle
it over all of the plan that's how you use coffee grounds okay so the next
method is to use copper tape so this I just bought at a nursery for about $15
so it was 10 meters for $15 (**link for copper tape products in description**) and what copper tape does is it actually produces
a little electrical charge it pretty much makes a galvanic cell so basically
this is when you have a metal and a metal solution and you mix them together
and they produce a small electric charge so basically copper is the metal and
then with the snails and slugs whatever sore mucus and slow and they have it
reacts with the copper to create a little electrical charge in this way it
almost the copper acts is like an electric fence around whatever savings
you have so back home on the farm we've won on the garden shed I produced a
little sort of I put some copper tape around there so I'll show you a quick
clip that I made just to show you what that looks like okay so this is the
little setup that I've got with the copper foil so basically all around the
outside of the shed all around the border I've just put some copper tape or
copper foil tape around the outside so this has stopped the snails getting
through to our seedlings here these are some Tomatoes and yeah this has worked
so far absolutely brilliantly I haven't seen any snails especially when we had
things like the pumpkins and zucchinis which I absolutely love
as soon as like this was put up it stopped it which is awesome okay so
another way to control your slugs and snails is by making a beer Trappe so
basically it's most commonly used with beer as the name implies that's where
you have you get beer and put it into a container like this and it's best to
have something like a lid on it so a lot of people have containers in ground and
they see and they sort of make a little almost roof over it
I just recycled a old milk carton and cut out some holes on the side so
basically what you do is then fill it up we'd be digging into the ground with the
soil at the level of these little holes and the the snails and slugs love the
yeast enos of the bee and so they'll go into it but if you don't want to waste
beer or you don't want to buy it then you can use something like some fruit
juice especially orange juice because I like citrus as well and then mix some
yeast in with it so I'm gonna do just open this up pour some of the orange
juice in there and this is actually the orange juice concentrate so pour some
orange juice in there get a packet of yeast probably only going to add about
half a packet for this give it a bit of a mix around now I'm just going to dig a
little hole for it so I can sit in there with the soil level now that's done and
especially because it's in a in a warm spot where it gets the Sun it's actually
gonna start fermenting and producing alcohol as well so then the snails will
be attracted to this and they'll go in there and drown so that's basically how
it works how it works is that snails Oh snails and slugs are attracted to it
they're going in drown but just one little note this can actually attract a
few other things as well such as millipedes and other insects sometimes
even if you have them large enough rats and rodents so that is just a caution as
well that it does attract other things but the slugs and snails fall for it
every single time okay another way you can use to control
snails and slugs is to actually use aluminium foil now this is again
something that really everyone would have and the way it works is that the
snails and slugs so you don't like climbing on the aluminium foil it's rule
that crinkly it's light it's this metal they don't like to go across it so what
you do is get a piece then I like to just fold it in half adds a bit of
strength now you want to crinkle it a little bit you don't want it to be real
smooth otherwise they might and go over it but definitely when it's crinkled
they hate that so then just to protect this young volunteer nectarine or peach
tree here you want to do fold it around
sort of wrap it together so it forms so wrap it together so it forms a full
barrier and then push it down into the soil now this is key you want to make
sure that it has full contact with the soil then even put some soil back around
the top or a bit of mulch just to hold it in place so this way the slugs and
snails they can't get up underneath it and the only way they can get to it is
through going through the aluminium foil but they won't like that so your plants
are safe now the next way to kill and control your slugs and snails is by
making a chili and garlic spray so basically all I did to do this we get a
clove of garlic crush it and so I mince it and put it in a little container and
then also I got two chillies very hot chilies and then roughly cut them up as
well it's better actually to cut it up a lot finer and then put that in and then
put over some boiling water I think it was about five hundred mils or so then I
let that seep overnight to extract all the oils from it and then once I was
done I put it in this container put this in the spray bottle and add it a real
little bit of detergent just any oil washing detergent or you could use soap
flakes so basically what this does is one the chilli and the garlic once
makes contact with the slugs and snails it actually sort of burns it but then
also the soap in it suffocates this the slugs and snails so what you can do is
either directly spray this onto any slugs and snails or spray it onto the
plants that you want to protect now one caution though that you don't
want to do this on really warm like hot days while today is sunny it is quite
cool and so I'm going to put it on this potato just to protect it now why you
don't want to spray this in hot weather is because this will actually burn the
plant the plant will wither back and die but it works very effectively and it can
also be used on a broad range of pests and insects that cause damage to plants
in the garden today yo everyone and hopefully that's giving you a few
different ideas or some methods just to help kill or control slugs and snails in
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